Mohamed Sharaf's Blog
SQL Server Senior Premier Field Engineer & SQL MCM. This blog is my small window to post any technical thoughts. All posts as is.
On June 10, a new fix released that fixes a bug in SQL 2012 SP1. It's not included in CU#9 that's...
Date: 06/17/2014
Another script that I wanted to share for so much time but didn't have the commitment to be...
Date: 06/16/2014
[Update: Version 2.0 uploaded with some bug fixes] When troubleshooting customer's performance issue...
Date: 05/19/2014
Today morning I got an email from a customer to review some design recommendation. In the...
Date: 12/18/2013
[Caution: This is for testing only if you want to have a cached dataset, will have severe issues in...
Date: 10/23/2013
I see sometimes there is an understanding that when using inequality operators in the where clause,...
Date: 10/14/2013
I recently faced this problem with my new Lenovo W530. On Windows 8 when using win+P to duplicate my...
Date: 03/23/2013
While reproducing the issue with DBCC OpenTran I wrote about earlier this week here I found a...
Date: 02/19/2013
Good news for independent developers who are using SQL Express as backend database. With SQL Server...
Date: 09/22/2010
Microsoft Press has just released a new free e-book for SQL Server 2008 R2 " Introducing Microsoft...
Date: 06/03/2010
Microsoft is always advise customers to use the new security features for SQL Logins in SQL Server....
Date: 01/22/2009
One of my friends called me for a problem at a customer site. The problem simple is that the...
Date: 07/10/2008
As I promised in my last post, here's the MS File Encryption program (MS stands for Mohamed Sharaf...
Date: 06/20/2007
If you have seen my previous post about the class library that I developed to encrypt text or files...
Date: 05/29/2007
I got a feedback for the Master Pages post asking about mixing master pages with cross post. Here's...
Date: 03/15/2007
If you are building CLR stored procedure and you want this stored procedure to be part of a schema...
Date: 02/21/2007
As I promised to provide a component to enable you to change the values of the application-scope...
Date: 01/18/2007
This is a quick post for using application or user settings in C# 2.0. I found most of the articles...
Date: 12/12/2006
When you create new foreign key constraint in SQL Server 2005 and this constraint conflict with the...
Date: 12/12/2006
Updating database tables using Management Studio is a the easiest way during the development phase....
Date: 10/30/2006
If you are planning to publish your Reporting Services site to the internet then you need to secure...
Date: 10/30/2006
Internet Explorer 7 is the newest version of Internet Explorer(IE) will be launched on Windows Vista...
Date: 08/07/2006
If you are one of the people who used and enjoyed SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in SQL 2000...
Date: 12/20/2005
One of the cool security features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to parts of web.config. Web.config...
Date: 11/17/2005
If you are a one who wants to know where's the content that you are reading the in the MSDN library...
Date: 11/16/2005
I've been invited to test a new product, VistaDB. I found it amazing. It's a tiny database engine...
Date: 11/10/2005
This time I'm introducing one of the most favorite codes for me. I built this library a year ago...
Date: 11/09/2005
If you are deploying your web application and you don't the users to browse your web application...
Date: 10/16/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 compilation is much different than ASP.NET 1.x compilation. In ASP.NET 1.x there was two...
Date: 10/04/2005
Let’s first discuss the problem. We use Hijri calendar and SQL server uses Gregorian calendar. And...
Date: 09/23/2005
Many of us encountered a lot of problems when installing Microsoft Enterprise Library on production...
Date: 09/18/2005
app.config and web.config are very powerfull techniques for managing application settings. For more...
Date: 09/14/2005
I was working in a small project in which I should deploy the database on the production server with...
Date: 09/11/2005
Check out this this cool full features-image processing windows application that totally built on...
Date: 08/25/2005
Few weeks ago I faced a problem when I was using SQL Server Reporting Services to generate a report...
Date: 08/13/2005
Inside ASP.NET Master Pages Download source (VB & C#) - XXX Kb Introduction Master pages are...
Date: 08/10/2005
Few months ago when Windows XP Service Pack 2 launched, I prepared a study notes for myself to...
Date: 07/27/2005
Windows Vista, try to memorize this name well because it will be the name of the next windows...
Date: 07/26/2005